Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

opportunistic infection

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English

Syllables: op-por-tunis-tic in-fec-tion
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

opportunistic infections (plural)

Questions

What does opportunistic infection mean?: Any infection that causes disease and occurs only when the host's immune system is impaired.

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